SOME run to catch the train. This man is desperately running to escape before a train catches him.

Drivers watched in horror as the runner, believed to be 61, took a wild risk and hopped over a level crossing barrier as Britain’s fastest train, the 140mph Japanese-built Javelin, approached.

The man even fell over in the middle of the track but managed to pull himself to his feet and get clear with just inches to spare, said photographer Steve Crispe, 52, who captured the scene in Gillingham, Kent.

The unidentified man was later arrested.

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